Iran is the biggest pistachio producer and exporter in the world. Surely, one of the most problems of pistachio industry is Aflatoxin contamination in recent years that treated exportation this valuable crop. This research was done in order to evaluate Aflatoxin contamination in indehiscence and mechanical splitting pistachios of Ouhadi cultivars in Rafsanjan region. Treatments of this research...

We use the boundary element method (BEM) to study transient plane strain deformations of water induced by a rigid hull impacting at normal incidence initially stationary water occupying a half space with the goal of finding the hydrodynamic pressure acting on the hull. Water is assumed to be incompressible and inviscid, and its deformations to have zero vorticity. Thus deformations of water are...

Ship designs with captured air plenums can provide benefits of reduced resistance and improved seakeeping performance. In order to design such ships, hydrodynamics computations are needed. We have extended our boundary element method code, 3DYNAFS, to the study of multi-hulls with air plenums and to predict wave resistance in the presence of the air plenum free surface. We also utilized an Unst...

Vehicle Design The Aurora towfish is broken down into five subsystems that are discussed below: Hull. The Aurora hull consists of a hemispherical free flooded nose folwere validated through a systematic series of sea trials. The Aurora development program produced a functional active towfish that can meet many commercial and military survey platform requirements. The deep depth capability, enha...

The objective of this study was to evaluate total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of leaf and different parts of fruit (hull, shell, and kernel) of Bene in Ilam province. Total phenolic content was determined with the FolinCiocalteu Reagent (FCR); antioxidant activity of methanolic extracts were examined by DPPH (2,2diphenyl1picrylhydrazyl), FRAP (ferric reducing antioxidant power) an...

Objectives: Almond (Prunus amygdalus) hull and shell are agricultural by-products that are a source of phenolic compounds.The processing of almond produce shell and hull, accounts for more than 50% by dry weight of the almond fruits. Recently, more studies have focused on the influence of storage conditions and postharvest handling on the nutritional quality of fruits, especially the antioxidan...

The slamming phenomenon is a violent impact of the hull of a ship on the free surface of the sea. This loading case is particularly difficult to modelize for several reasons: first of all, the wet surface of the hull is an unknown; then a coupling with the springing (flexibility of the ship) is very complex and finally the interaction with the waves (even if the eigenfrequencies of the structur...

Integer programs defined by two equations with two free integer variables and nonnegative continuous variables have three types of nontrivial facets: split, triangle or quadrilateral inequalities. In this paper, we compare the strength of these three families of inequalities. In particular we study how well each family approximates the integer hull. We show that, in a well defined sense, triang...